
Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Hosted by Patrick McKenzie · Patrick McKenzie
4.9from 385 ratings
- 111
- Episodes
- 100
- Transcribed
- 385
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
We live in a world where our civilization and daily lives depend upon institutions, infrastructure, and technological substrates that are _complicated_ but not _unknowable_. Join Patrick McKenzie (patio11) as he discusses how decisions, technology, culture, and incentives shape our finance, technology, government, and more, with the people who built (and build) those Complex Systems.
- Publisher
- Patrick McKenzie
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jul 2024
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
100 of 111 episodes have a transcript.

6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Reading the Anthropic S-1, with Zvi Mowshowitz
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like you choosing these other considerations over the considerations that I care about. And maybe I even think you're right to do so, but I'm going to knock you for having done it. Cool. Shall we go to the second part of your takeaways, which was on control, I think? Yep. Second section is on control. […]
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- Max Spero
- Alex Elliott
- Manish Goregaokar
- Misha Gurevich
- Vivian Belenky
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 155 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 230 ratings
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- Quality
- 99
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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